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ἐπιμέλεια

epimeleia

care bestowed upon

Appears 92 times across Plato's dialogues.

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ἐπιμέλεια, ἡ, written -εα IG 22.483.24 (iv B.C.), Aeol. gen. -ηΐας ib.12(2).243 (Mytilene); Ion.gen. -λίης Ps.-Hdt. Vit.Hom. 5(s.v.l.): —Α. care bestowed upon a thing, attention paid to it, and abs., attention, diligence, Prose word, once in Hdt. (v. infr.), freq. in Th., X., etc.: in pl., pains, X. Cyr. 1.6.4, etc.: c.gen.objecti, ἐ. τοῦ ναυτικοῦ, οἰκείων καὶ πολιτικῶν, Th. 2.39,40; τῶν ἔργων Id. 3.46; τῶν πραγμάτων And. 2.13; τῶν κοινῶν Isoc. 7.25; τῶν καμνόντων Pl. Lg. 720d (hence, of medical treatment, S.E. P. 2.240); πλήθους γεννημάτων Pl. Lg. 740d; also περί τινος τὴν ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Th. 7.56; περὶ τοὺς νέους Lycurg. 106; πρὸς τοὺς θεούς, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, D. 22.78, Pl. Lg. 754b; εἰς τὰ ἀναγκαῖα Posidon. 8J.; ἐπιμέλειάν τινος ποιεῖσθαι, ἔχειν, Hdt. 6.105, Th. 6.41, Arist. Pol. 1330b11, D. 61.43, cf.Pl. R. 451d; opp. ἐπιμελείας τυγχάνειν to have attention paid to one, Isoc. 6.154, cf. POxy. 58.22 (iii A.D.), etc.; ἐ. παρὰ τοῦ δαιμονίου Hyp. Epit. 43; διʼ ἐπιμελείας ἔχειν τινά Is. 7.14; ἐπιμελείᾳ, κατʼ ἐπιμέλειαν, with diligence, X. Cyr. 5.3.47, HG 4.4.8; διʼ ἐπιμελείας θεοῦ ἡ ἀτυχία γίγνεται Antipho 3.3.8; μετὰ πάσης ἐ. X.Eph. 2.10. 2. a commission or charge, Aeschin. 3.13, Arist. Pol. 1299a20 (pl.); ἡ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ἐ. ib.1322b18, cf. ib.30 (pl.); ἡ τῶν ἐφήβων ἐ., a special office at Athens, Din. 3.15; so πρὸς τῇ ἐ. τῶν χρηματιστῶν, = ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν χρ., POxy. 281.2 (i A.D.). 3. any employment or pursuit, interpol. in X. Cyr. 1.6.13, etc.: pl., ἐ. καὶ σπουδαί pursuits which demand zeal, Arist. Rh. 1370a11, cf.EN 1138b26.
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